English at Lafayette College

24 faculty and 40 courses in English at Lafayette College.

Faculty

• June Schlueter, Charles A. Dana Professor Emerita h-index 9
  Early modern autograph albums; the English actors in Germany during Shakespeare’s time Selected publications: “Halfe maim’d? Five Unknown Poems by Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke” (with Paul Schlueter), Times Literary Supplement
  Notable: “The Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger” (1977) · 73 citations
• Steven Belletto, Professor of English h-index 7
  Cold War literature and culture; the Beats; theories of narrative and postmodernity; Ted Joans; the broad relationship between aesthetics and politics Selected publications: Books Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joans (Bloomsbury, 2025
  Notable: “The Beat Generation Meets the Hungry Generation: U.S.—Calcutta Networks and the 1960s “Revolt of the Personal”” (2019) · 26 citations
• Carolynn Van Dyke, Francis A. March Professor Emerita h-index 6
  Middle English literature; medieval representations of nonhuman animals Selected publications: The Fiction of Truth: Structures of Meaning in Narrative and Dramatic Allegory . Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. Chaucer’s Agents: Cause
  Notable: “Taking “computer literacy” literally” (1987) · 27 citations
• Carrie Rohman, Professor of English h-index 5
  Environmental Humanities, including animal studies, modernism, performance, critical theory, aesthetics, and posthumanism; Critical University Studies. Recent Publications (complete list here ): Books FORTHCOMING: Broken Record: Narratives
  Notable: “Revising the Human: Silence, Being, and the Question of the Animal in Nightwood” (2007) · 21 citations
• Lee Upton, Emerita Francis A. March Professor h-index 3
  Modern and contemporary poetry; contemporary fiction; creative writing–introductory, intermediate, and advanced; humor writing Selected publications: The Day Every Day Is. Saturnalia Books (2023): recipient of the Saturnalia Books Po
  Notable: “Rationale and study protocol for the supporting children’s outcomes using rewards, exercise and skills (SCORES) group randomized controlled trial: A physical activity and fundamental movement skills intervention for primary schools in low-income communities” (2012) · 48 citations
• Walter Wadiak, Associate Professor of English and Department Head h-index 2
  Middle English; Chaucer; popular romance; the early history of capitalism; history of emotion Selected Publications: “‘Doubtfull Drede’: Dying at the End of the Middle Ages” in The Routledge Companion to Death and L
  Notable: “Chaucer's Knight's Tale and the Politics of Distinction” (2010) · 2 citations
• Gabrielle Kelenyi, Assistant Professor of English h-index 1
  Community literacies; composition pedagogy; qualitative community-engaged and participatory methodologies; antiracist writing program/center administration; writing development across the lifespan Selected Publications Kelenyi, Gabrielle I
• Andrew Uzendoski, Lecturer in English
• Bianca Falbo, Associate Professor of English, Director of the First-Year Seminar Program
  Writing; pedagogy; print culture in the long 19th century; history of the book; textual criticism; animal studies Selected publications: “Felicia Hemans’s Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers: History, Memory, Nation.” A Band of Exiles on the Wi
• Chris Phillips, Professor of English
  American and transatlantic literatures of the 18th and 19th centuries; literary history; history of the book and of reading; religion and literature; literary history; literature of the sea; the uses of epic in American literature and cult
• David R. Johnson, Professor (Emeritus)
  American literature and culture Selected publications: Conrad Richter: A Writer’s Life. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001 Articles on Ernest Hemingway, Harold Frederic, and other figures Lafayette College
• Deborah Byrd, Professor of English (Emerita)
  Romantic and Victorian poetry; Irish literature; interdisciplinary and literature-based courses in women’s and gender studies Publications include articles on Victorian poets and Joyce, women science fiction writers, and feminist and servi
• Enrico Bruno, Visiting Assistant Professor
• James Woolley, Frank Lee and Edna M. Smith Professor Emeritus
  The literature and social history of the long 18th century ); satire; the novel; poetry; literary research methods; the history of the book; digital humanities; analytic bibliography Selected publications: Swift’s Later Poems: St
• Jennifer Gilmore, Associate Professor of English, Creative Writing Coordinator
• Jessie Cortez, Assistant Professor of English
  Rhetoric of health and medicine; science communication; composition pedagogy Selected publications: Jessie Cortez , & Joanna Tsenn . (2025). “Writing Assessment Training for Capstone Design Instructors.” Proceeding s of the 2025 ASEE A
• Kathleen Parrish, Senior Lecturer in English
• Lindsay Griffiths Brown, Assistant Professor of English
  Literature of the Black diaspora; theories of translation; translation practice; archival studies; race Selected Publications & Translations “Unbelonging and the Language of Black Resistance.” Review of Translating Blackness: Latinx Col
• Mary Armstrong, Charles A. Dana Professor of English and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies
  Women’s, Gender and Sexuality studies; Queer and feminist theory, inclusive STEM Studies, Victorian literature and culture. Publications Disparate Measures: The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work (MIT Press 2024), co-authored w
• Megan Fernandes, Associate Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence
• Mikael Awake, Assistant Professor of English
• Patricia Donahue, Professor of English (Emerita)
  Rhetorical theory; critical theory; Renaissance literature Selected publications: The Elements (and Pleasures) of Difficulty . With Mariolina Rizzi Salvatori. New York: Pearson Longman, 2005. Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Compos
• Paul Cefalu, Frank Lee and Edna M. Smith Professor
• Tim Laquintano, Associate Professor of English
  Writing in digital environments; internet studies; literacy studies; composition pedagogy; authorship; current research is a qualitative study on the adoption of large language models by workplace writers Selected publications: Major Proje

Courses

• Introduction to Academic Writing ENG 100
• Introduction to Literature ENG 105
• Science Fiction ENG 115
• Film and Literature ENG 116
• Psychoanalysis and Literature ENG 117
• Literature for Children ENG 118
• Literary Women ENG 119
• American-Jewish Literature ENG 128
• Literature and Human Experience ENG 135
• Irish Writers and the Struggle for Political Independence ENG 136
• Black Writers ENG 146
• Introduction to the Digital Humanities ENG 150
• Introduction to Creative Writing ENG 151
• Chicanx Literature ENG 174
• Native American Literature ENG 175
• Writing Seminar ENG 202
• Introduction to English Studies I ENG 205
• Literary History ENG 206
• English Literature I ENG 210
• English Literature II ENG 211
• American Literature I: Origins to Civil War ENG 212
• American Literature II: The Gilded Age to the Present ENG 213
• The English Language ENG 220
• Contemporary Literature ENG 225
• Journalistic Writing ENG 231
• The Short Story ENG 232
• Introduction to Writing & Rhetoric ENG 240
• International Literature ENG 245
• Nature Writing ENG 247
• Writing Genres ENG 250
• Screenwriting ENG 251
• Writing for Television ENG 252
• Humor Writing ENG 254
• Creative Nonfiction ENG 255
• Fiction Writing Workshop ENG 256
• Poetry Writing Workshop ENG 257
• Dostoevsky in a Global Context ENG 265
• Dancing Cultures ENG 271
• Internship ENG 272
• Taboos: Literary Sexualities ENG 274

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.